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Aaru, the AI-driven synthetic-population prediction startup co-founded by Ned Koh, has opened a Singapore office (its first outside New York) to pursue Asia-Pacific customers, with Koh citing strong regional interest in collaboration.

A Financial Times report, republished by SBS News, covers a wave of Australian data-center IPO withdrawals and quotes CoreWeave CEO Mike Intrator naming Lambda Labs alongside Firmus and AirTrunk as 'neocloud' firms whose funding setbacks are souring investor sentiment toward the AI infrastructure sector.

Axios (syndicated via MSN) profiled ProRata.ai CEO Bill Gross on his launch of Idealab.ai, a new AI platform that generates and gives away business ideas, noting he remains CEO of ProRata.ai while pursuing this new venture.

An AInvest analysis piece, drawing on Bloomberg's reporting, highlights Mercor's rapid valuation growth — from $2 billion to seeking more than $10 billion in about seven months — as part of a broader shift in the AI industry toward paying white-collar professionals premium rates for proprietary training data.

A Japanese tech blogger's note.com post highlights Liquid AI's October 15, 2026 release of d1-ultra, a new multimodal 'decision model' that returns calibrated probabilities instead of generating text, as well as its October 13 release of the efficient LFM2.5-24B-A2B model.

An article on the Moldovan outlet Logos Press (syndicated from Russian site bits.media/cryptonews.net) reports that Nvidia-backed startup Starcloud plans to be the first company to mine Bitcoin in space, with CEO Philip Johnston quoted on the plan and a second satellite, Starcloud-2, carrying mining ASICs slated for early 2027.